Australia now has a Railo Community Manager

...and it is me.

I have been a long time of CFML and over the last four years an ever increasing fan of Railo. This blog went live on Railo 15 October 2007. Gert Franz spent a lot of time with emails and Skye calls helping me set up my web server and we have been chatting about CFML and Railo ever since.

So last Thursday I get another call from him to discuss Railo AU, which I keep bugging him, and recently Peter Bell, about all the time. But this time he asks me if I would like to join the Railo Team and  be the Community Manager for Australia (and APAC). I felt very honoured to be offered this voluntary role and immediately accepted.

So if there is anything you would like to know or need assistance with I can be contacted at andrew @ getrailo . org

Posted by AJ Mercer at 8:42 pm - Categories: Railo | CFML

ColdFusion Query of Query tips and tricks

Posted by AJ Mercer at 8:00 pm - Categories: CFML | ColdFusion | Railo

I am speaking at webDU 2010

Posted by AJ Mercer at 9:42 am - Categories: ColdFusion | CFML | Railo

In search of the Holy Grails of web development

Posted by AJ Mercer at 5:56 pm - Categories: CFML | Grails | Railo

Server Rebuild - Railo on Tomcat with Apache

Posted by AJ Mercer at 10:08 pm - Categories: Railo | Webonix

Lite Application Frameworks for ColdFusion

Recently there seems to have been some backlash against monolithic application for ColdFusion - they are too hard to learn, there require to much effort to set them up ...But probably the works criticism of all, is they take the fun out of ColdFusion development.

In reply to this, a number of 'lite' application frameworks have sprung up. For Example

• Barney Boisvert's FB3Lite
• Sean Corfield's Framework One
• Brian Meloche's LightFront

So I was wondering,

• how good are these frameworks?
• can they hold there own again the big Frameworks?
• and are they really easier to pick up and run with?

I was also wonder how the authors of the 'Lite' frameworks feel about

• the framework used as a learning tool / stepping stone to a 'real' framework
• they are for 'Hobbyists', not 'Real developers'

And in the future, will the authors feel the need to implement requests for developers that will turn the 'lite' framework into monolithic application?

Posted by AJ Mercer at 10:38 am - Categories: CFML | ColdFusion | Railo

I am now speaking at CF.Objective(ANZ)

This will be my first time as a speaker at at (any) conference. My session, entitled 'Future proofing your application development' is aimed at people that are struggling with CF OO syle development that is now prolific in many of the big and popular frameworks. It will take a pragmatic look at how you develop now, with steps you can take to easy yourself into this world, if indeed you decide that it is for you.

I will also be arriving in Melbourne a day early to attend the Inaugural FarCry DevCamp at Melbourne Law School and will be show casing the new Paterson's Extranet bult on Farcry 5.2

Posted by AJ Mercer at 11:50 am - Categories: ColdFusion